LANSDALE — A pair of Philadelphia men accused of taking part in a drive-by shooting in Lansdale in September 2011 are headed to county court.

John Sambath, who spent his 20th birthday in prison Wednesday, and Christian Vietri, 21, each face a lengthy list of charges related to the shooting in the 900 block of Wedgewood Drive in Lansdale.

Sambath — a resident of the 1600 block of 15th Street in Philadelphia — arrived and left court in handcuffs, jeans, and a blue shirt, and declined to comment as he was escorted by Lansdale police into and out of the courthouse of District Judge Harold Borek on Thursday morning. He remains in custody after failing to post $500,000 bail after his arrest on Dec. 5, although that bail was reduced to $250,000 after he and attorney Thomas Carluccio agreed to a stipulation with Assistant District Attorney Rebecca Strubel. “Several charges were withdrawn, but the appropriate charges were stipulated to in order to prevent the witnesses from having to testify at district court,” Strubel said.

Vietri — of the 1200 block of S. 11th Street in Philadelphia — arrived wearing a black shirt, black jeans and work boots, after posting $75,000 bail on Dec. 12. He declined to comment before and after the hearing, which he and attorney Kenneth Young of Philadelphia agreed to waive in exchange for one felony count of aggravated assault with a weapon being withdrawn by the commonwealth.

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Both are scheduled to appear in county court on Feb. 13 to face formal arraignments on the remaining charges: for Sambath those charges include a felony count of attempted criminal homicide, two felony counts of aggravated assault, and felony counts of discharging a firearm into an occupied structure and carrying the firearm without a license. He also faces misdemeanor charges of simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, terroristic threats, criminal mischief for damaging property, and possessing an instrument of crime, according to court records; withdrawn by the commonwealth during Thursday’s hearing were felony counts of burglary and criminal trespassing and two counts each of misdemeanor simple assault and recklessly endangering.

For Vietri the charges remaining include a felony count of carrying firearms without a license, six misdemeanor counts of recklessly endangering another person, two misdemeanor counts of simple assault, single misdemeanor counts of terroristic threats, disorderly conduct, possessing an instrument of crime and DUI, and summary counts of purchasing alcohol while a minor, carrying a false ID, and failing to obey a stop sign, according to court records.

According to the affidavits of probable cause against both, police were dispatched to the 900 block of Wedgewood Drive around midnight on Sept. 4 and arrived to find an 18-year-old male with a gunshot wound to his upper torso. An eyewitness told police that two groups of people had been involved in a verbal altercation, and that two men later identified as Vietri and Sambath had been involved.

The witness told police that Vietri brandished a handgun in the front yard of the home and yelled at the group, before firing two rounds from his gun and following the group into a nearby house. Sambath then allegedly tried to assault the witness and had his handgun out while inside the house, before he left the house, got into a grey Chevrolet Impala, and fired several shots at the house while people were outside before driving away.

One victim was hit by that volley of shots as Sambath fled in the car, and the victim was then taken to Abington Hospital for treatment of the gunshot wound, according to police. Shell casings were found in the street matching bullet holes in the home, as was a black Adidas sneaker.

Vietri was taken into custody several blocks away after police saw him drive at high speed through a stop sign on Wedgewood Drive minutes after the shooting that night, police said. Vietri later admitted to being in an altercation in that area, and police noted that he was wearing a sneaker matching the one found at the scene of the shooting with the other missing, and reportedly found a partially empty bottle of vodka in his car — at the time he was 19 years old — and a fake driver’s license with the name Christian Fernandez and a 1989 date of birth.

During the investigation, witnesses described the man who had fired as a Cambodian man known as “Smokey” in his early 20s, of a muscular build, about 6 feet tall with long dark hair, a mustache and beard. Police located surveillance video from a nearby convenience store where the man had been seen shortly before the shooting, and the victim confirmed that the man and car in the surveillance video were the same as those who had been involved in the shooting.

Police then located a picture of Vietri with a group of people including one that matched the description of “Smokey” on Vietri’s Facebook page, and Philadelphia police identified the man known to the witness as “Smokey” as Sambath. He was questioned by police while in custody at Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility and initially denied that he had been in an altercation in Lansdale that night, according to police, and denied knowing Vietri even after being shown a photo with both together. Police also learned that he had been booked under the name of John Sam with a date of birth in 1991 and as John Sambath with a birth date of 1993, which he could not explain, and noted that in his drivers’ license photo he had long hair matching the surveillance video and descriptions from witnesses.